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Music Exec Fires Back At Apple CEO

Posted by Zonk on from the good-luck dept.

geniusj writes "Warner Music Group CEO, Edgar Bronfman Jr., has fired back at Steve Jobs in response to the Apple CEO's claim that having variable pricing for iTunes music would be 'greedy.' From the article: 'To have only one price point is not fair to our artists, and I dare say not appropriate to consumers. The market should decide, not a single retailer ... Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more. I don't want to give anyone the impression that $0.99 is a thing of the past ... We are selling our songs through iPod, but we don't have a share of iPod's revenue ... We want to share in those revenue streams. We have to get out of the mindset that our content has promotional value only.' Perhaps iPods combined with iPods are selling music as well, and it's not just a one-way street?"

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  1. Do they get a share of the sale of CD players? by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't think so. Why should they deserve a share of iPod sales?

    1. Re:Do they get a share of the sale of CD players? by BandwidthHog · · Score: 5, Interesting

      That was what I thought at first, but by the time I got to the end of the article, I was pretty sure he really did mean to imply that his industry was entitled to a cut of each and every iPod sold. Perhaps I’m wrong, but Bronfman isn’t known for being the brightest crayon in the sandwich, if you get my drift.

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  2. Notice what he didn't say... by stoneymonster · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more. I don't want to give anyone the impression that $0.99 is a thing of the past ... We are selling our songs through iPod, but we don't have a share of iPod's revenue

    So I guess no songs should be LESS than $0.99. Apparantely that is the minimum value for all music clips of any length or quality. Oh, and I like how they want a cut of the "iPod" revenue. Maybe they should go after CD player manufacturers and home stereo's too, by that logic. Classic.